What exactly is womanist theology? According to Stacy M. Floyd-Thomas, womanist theology reveals itself to be an organic discourse inasmuch as it is faithful to the church while also seeking to remake this most central and cherished institution. This is not viewed as an innovation by womanist theologians but is deemed a continuation of Black women’s traditional culture of struggle survival and, and celebration that represents the likes of womanist muses such as: Maria Steward, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Well-Barnett, and many more. Throughout my reading experience on womanist theology, I have been quite captivated. I look forward to informing you about womanist and feminist theologies, specifically in the United States and sharing how it is different.
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For that reason, Fulkerson says that the “whiteness” of feminist theology has to do with the important development of other theologies. This enforces the fact that even though Feminist theology is a rich and vital contribution to theology, it cannot claim to speak for all women. Famous novelist, Alice Walker once said, “Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.” Womanism and feminism theologies are so alike, yet they are different. According to cbeinternational.org, one of the biggest similarities between womanism and feminism is that even though there can be vast differences in the status and outlook of blacks and white, many women still “share a common condition of dependency, secondary existence, domestic labor, sexual exploitation, and the projection of their role in procreation into a total definition of their existence.” I personally believe that both theologies demand change that is for the greater good. According to Liberation Theologies in the United States they are different because unlike feminism, womanism is not an overarching paradigm that all women must ascribe to but a guide to self-definition and self-determination to which a Black woman chooses to adhere. Womanism is not a form of revolutionary asceticism, nor does it impose
For that reason, Fulkerson says that the “whiteness” of feminist theology has to do with the important development of other theologies. This enforces the fact that even though Feminist theology is a rich and vital contribution to theology, it cannot claim to speak for all women. Famous novelist, Alice Walker once said, “Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.” Womanism and feminism theologies are so alike, yet they are different. According to cbeinternational.org, one of the biggest similarities between womanism and feminism is that even though there can be vast differences in the status and outlook of blacks and white, many women still “share a common condition of dependency, secondary existence, domestic labor, sexual exploitation, and the projection of their role in procreation into a total definition of their existence.” I personally believe that both theologies demand change that is for the greater good. According to Liberation Theologies in the United States they are different because unlike feminism, womanism is not an overarching paradigm that all women must ascribe to but a guide to self-definition and self-determination to which a Black woman chooses to adhere. Womanism is not a form of revolutionary asceticism, nor does it impose